The Nicoya Peninsula on Google Maps

If you want to go to Malpais from Cabuya, you have to take the “road” which consists of 7 kilometers of steep dirt crossing several waterways. It is absolutely 4×4 country even in the best of conditions during the dry season, and sometimes it’s no man’s land when it’s raining hard and the rivers are running way too fast for any possible attempt at crossing them.

On the plus side, when you click on “Earth”, you get a really cool Google Earth fly-through interface. Tuanis.